According to Ted Terry,
We are the first PSC campaign in over a decade to go up on the broadcast airwaves!
Here’s the video:
About those rate hikes: Georgia Power hikes prices for gas and nuclear, then complains about solar and We can charge you even if it’s cancelled! —CWIPped Georgia Power
Steve Oppenheimer is on the record as wanting more energy efficiency and renewable energy (including solar energy).
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The Georgia Public Service Commission decides how much you pay for energy.
If you’re tired of Georgia Power’s
three-legged nuclear regulatory-capture stool
and
Georgia lagging far behind other states in solar and wind energy,
or you just want
PSC members who will represent you
and who do not
accept massive campaign contributions from the utilities they regulate
or their employees or lawyers
like the incumbents do;
the incumbents who can’t even be bothered to show up for debates
or to answer questionnaires.
Here are two GA PSC challengers who did answer a questionnaire:
Democrat Steve Oppenheimer
and
Libertarian David Staples.
Early voting has already started:
you can vote for them today.
While you’re at it, you can
vote for statehouse legislators who will let the sun shine on Georgia.
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The Georgia Sierra Club sent a questionnaire to all candidates for
Georgia Public Service Commission.
None of the incumbents answered.
The two challengers did.
Here’s the one from
Steve Oppenheimer
for District 3.
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- As a Candidate for Public Service Commission, what is your campaign strategy for achieving 50% +1 of the votes cast?
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- How should the Public Service Commission consider and weight the impacts to community health (asthma, cancer rates, etc.) and on Georgia’s environmental (water quantity, air quality etc.) when making decisions about a utility’s generation portfolio?
The PSC has a major role shaping energy policy for Georgia. I would like to schedule PSC hearings on the relationship of power production and our air, water, morbidity and mortality and our general quality of life. My professional background in dentistry & health care provides a keen understanding of the relationship of power generation and health. Dr David Satcher, former US Surgeon General and Executive Director Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse University has become a friend and part of my professional network during the campaign. I would like to see PSC convene hearings on the topic. Georgians for a Healthy Future, a relatively new, broad based, organization would provide another forum for discussion of these issues. Membership in Georgians for a Healthy Future includes Georgia Legislators on both sides of the aisle. The PSC must be a leader on these issues—as the legislature as a body will likely not be progressive on these issues.